Online interview – August 19,2020 Chantal Background Chantal (not her real name), 35 years old, married to a Japanese for almost 10 years, lives in Osaka, Japan. She is the eldest of 4 siblings. Her family lives in a rural area in one of the islands in...
On July 6 we began the volunteer program Servir Juntos 2020 (Serve Together 2020) in collaboration with Atalaya Intercultural in Burgos, with children of immigrant parents. Some of the children are already Spanish, but there are other more recent arrivals who don’t know our language...
OUR DEAR IMMIGRANTS, MAINLY FROM VENEZUELA, ARE GOING THROUGH A DREADFUL TIME DURING QUARANTINE! Yes, the very small amount of money that they have been able to earn by their work, is all used up because of the Covid19 pandemic; and many of them have been...
The opening of the time of confinement must have left us with a more attentive gaze. We found a family living on the river bed. Naroman* is the woman who was trying to make a living by filtering sand from the river. The husband sleeps...
Here in Vietnam, 3 months after the end of the quarantine by May 11 in the midst of Covid -19, life almost gets back to “normal”. Churches filled with the congregations; companies, restaurants, bars open; kids go back to school, public transportations are once again...
Home health aides are also in danger of catching the coronavirus, because the majority of them take care of elderly people who are worn out and worn down by the weight of years, and in some cases have serious illnesses. Elderly people require infinite respect,...
For several years we have been looking for ways to accompany migrant workers who come from Northern and Western states like Odissa and Kharkand to work in Kerala. It is not an easy life and being able to be close to them, especially the young...
Few women have passed through the Kalakasan migrant centre during the pandemic. They were afraid to leave. But one day Imelda Flores Ishiwata came to talk to us and today she wants to tell her story. She is 51 years old, married to Takahiro Ishiwata, 72,...
By the side of the Northern Highway in Bogotá, dozens of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters hope to find some way to travel to the border city of Cúcuta, and from there to be able to return to their country. This problem has become more acute...
At the end of April and the beginning of May in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, around 300 Peruvians went to the Peruvian consulate in Santiago seeking repatriation. Families with small children, pregnant women who with the distress of being unemployed desperately wanted to...
